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Budgeting Attention & Concern

  Ability, Dismissed - Again Young entrepreneurs. Female entrepreneurs. Female founders.  Yet again, a UK government makes vague mentions about "reducing the welfare bill" (having already claimed there's £15billion of headroom, rising to over £20billion in three years, and whilst expressing "full commitment" to AI, which is going to result in a wholesale loss  of jobs and opportunities), but disabled people, who bear the brunt of society's dissatisfaction with the welfare spend, and who are routinely the focus of media vitriol and aggressive rhetoric, are conspicuous in John Healey's enthusiasm for "supporting British entrepreneurship" by our absence. Apparently, even this enthusiastically "pro-British success" Labour government, with all its vision and ideology, can't conceive of disabled entrepreneurs.  A government with a responsibility to supporting every demographic in its society cannot see businesses being run by disabled p...